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1. 1. John Benjamins: Book details for Appraising Research in Second Language Learning [LL< 3]

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   Published on: 6/14/2008   Last Visited: 6/14/2008

   Andrew Cohen, University of Minnesota

2. 2. UNE News and Events

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   Published on: 11/3/2004   Last Visited: 11/3/2004

   Professor Andrew Cohen is the Director of the Language Resource Centre at the University of Minnesota.The Centre has produced a new guidebook that helps students analyse and overcome difficulties they face when they travel abroad and try to immerse themselves in a foreign language.
   
   Professor Cohen said that much of the difficulty was a result of "culture shock", and that the guidebook provided strategies for breaking down this initial barrier.It did this, he said, by focusing on "speech acts" such as requests and apologies, that were "at the intersection of language and culture".
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   Professor Andrew Cohen is the Director of the Centre for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition at the University of Minnesota in the United States.His presentations at UNE will describe and demonstrate some of the Centre's latest practical advances in helping learners of a second language.

3. 3. Andrew Cohen

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   Published on: 4/21/2007   Last Visited: 4/20/2008

   Professor Andrew D. Cohen
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   Andrew D. Cohen, University of Minnesota
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   Bio-statement: Andrew D. Cohen was a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural development with the Aymara Indians on the High Plains of Bolivia (1965-67), taught in the ESL Section at UCLA, was a professor of language education for many years at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and since 1991 has been in the ESL Program at the University of Minnesota, where he was awarded Scholar of the College in the College of Liberal Arts (2002 to 2005).He was a Fulbright Lecturer/Researcher to Brazil (1986-87) and a Visiting Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand (2004-05).Cohen was director of the National Language Resource Center at the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) (1993-2004).In addition, he was AAAL Secretary Treasurer (1993 to 1997) and Secretary General of AILA (1996 to 2002).Cohen was the recipient of the 2006 AAAL Distinguished Scholarship and Service Award.He has published numerous research articles on language teaching, language learning, language testing, and research methods, as well as books on bilingual education, on language learning strategies, and on language assessment and research methods.